CUCUMIS SATIVUS
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A creeping annual plant species of the CUCURBITACEAE family. It has a rough succulent, trailing stem and hairy leaves with three to five pointed lobes.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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is used, when young, as a pickle, when it is called a Gherkin, (F.) Cornichon. It is not a fruit easy of digestion. The seeds are mucilaginous. An ointment of green cucumber- cucumber ointment- is used as a cooling salve. Is is made combining, by means of heat, the juice of green cucumbers with lard and veal suet.
By Robley Dunglison